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PAGE FOUR Sports Parade By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (TO He ruined the Dodgers cnce so you Can’t blame Bobby Thomson today if he is dreaming of do- The time may be ripe. For as the hero of the New . Itflrk Giant pennant playoff in 1951 goes to the Milv*au kee Braves, this is a club improved even over the sensa tional second place outfit of last season. Stranger things have happened in baseball than the Braves coming on to win in 1954 and the flying Scot could be a deciding factor once more. Greener Pastures Greener pastures frequently have made stars out of players thought to be robots of mediocrity. Allie Reynolds the upper chief of the Yankees, was considered a front runner at Cleveland. Dixie Walker was obscure with sev eral teams before winning the batting title at Brooklyn. Hank Sauer, a distressed player at Cincinnati, be came the league’s most valuable performer with the Cubs. And little Nelson Fox, a zero with the A’s, became an all star with the White Sox. There are many of them, and Thomson could be an other. Certainly the 30-year-old outfielder and side-saudle third baseman has the physical attributes. A fleet-footed six foot, two inch athlete, he is built for power production. Paid Off To date it paid off once, in that final playoff game of . JDSI against the Dodgers when his home run won the pen _/hant for the Giants. Yet Thomson never has lived up to expectations since. He hit .300 only once, with a .309 mark in 1949, and led the league in triples with 14 in 1952. Last season he batted .288 and hit 26 home runs. That, observers tell you, is far below his probable ca pacity. It was expected that his famous blow of 1951 might touch off the fuse to his latent talents. When it didn’t there is a feeling, the Giants permitted their lost faith to show. Bobby reacted as any human being could be expect ed to react. Touchy And Quick He was touchy and quick to resent criticism. There was little question, at the end of last season, but that he was a marked man. Once there had been a flareup with Leo Durocher after a fly ball carried over Bobby’s head. The subsequent interpretation was that Durocher ques tioned him about his “loping” and Thomson understood the manager to speculate on his “loafing.” Without danger of misinterpretation, it can be sqid that Thomson committed seven errors,'a goodly number. But now he goes to Milwaukee, where winning be came a general infection. The club bounced all the way from seventh to second its first year there and, as the team most improved by trading, could go all the way a gainst a Dodger team which apparently is more concern ed over the outcome of the 1954 World Series than the 1954 pennant which must be won-first. If that Milwaukee fervor heedles Thomson, as it did Ed Mathews et al, he could be a tremendous cog in a win ning machine. It might even be 1951 all over again for the man who ruined the Dodgers once before. Carolina League Sked Is Adopted DURHAM to Baseball re turned to the Worth Carolina sport-, scene today as the Class B Caro f.-'llna League announced Its plans for ' the Coming season. At a meeting here the league adopted its 1954 schedule, picked Ambulance Service Phone 2077 CROMARTIE FUNERAL HOME DUNN, N. C. i 1 * ir 1 ' 1 I sites fer holiday games and dis cussed radio broadcasting policy. Tfrhe schedule presented by league President Ted Mann calls for the 140-game season to open April 21 and end Sept. 6. Each club Will fclay 70 games on the road and 70 at home. There will be 10 Sunday games for seven o1 the eight teams. Reids - ville, which does not play Sunday games, drew two Sunday dates and sites for these games will be deci ded at a later date. On opening day, Reidsville wil! ' I'* SPORTS SHORTS BY UNITED PRESS The Philadephia Athletics, con cemed at Dave Philley's rejection of a $6,000 raise, dropped a broad hint today that the 13 -year-old out fielder might be available in a ma jor trade. “X wouldn't want to sets him come to spring training in his present frame of mind," said Earl? Mack, general manager of the Athletics. Mack revealed that Phil ley, the A’s’ top average hitter last season, had turned down three df fers for a 1954 contract and that his lasl rejection was accompanied by a “very nasty letter." Mack did not reveal how much Philley was demanding but said, “He’s askihg a lot of money.” The New York Rangers, defy ing both the law of average And the hockey axiom that “you can’t win on the road,” crept to within a single point of the Boston Bruihs in their battle for fourth places to • day on the strength of a 10th vic tory in 14 games. The streaking Rangers gained two points on Boston when they defeated the Chi cago Black Hawks, 3-2, Thursday mgnt while Terry Sawchuk scored his ninth shutout as the league leading Detroit Red Wings routed the Bruins, 5-0, at Olympia. PITTSBURGH lift The Pitts burgs Steelers rounded out Thurs day what figures to be the most potential of rookies in the Na tional Football league next sea son by signing UCLA’s sensational halfback Paul Cameron. Steelcr President Art Rooney said Thursday night Cameron had added his naifie to that of Notre Dame's Johnny Lattner to play with the Pittsburgh club in 1954. Lattner signed a coti tract after talking with Steeler Coach Joe Bach in South Bend, Ind., late Wednesday night. St. MOritz, Switzerland Ilf) If practice runs hold any weight then tha United States should be favored in the Palace Cup bobsled open which begins today. Two U. S. two-man teams recorded the days best times Thursday in trial rims down the ohe-mile corkscrew qourse. Dick Sefvincr and James Stearns i#ete clocked In 1:28 7, while a second LJ. S. team made It in 1:29.4.4 KNOXVILLE,’Tenn. Ilfl' lt's official now Harvey Robinsbn is the head football coach of the University of Tennessee and assist ant athletic, director for 1964. The school’s athletic board made the announcement Thursday, thus clearing all doubts of Robinson’s status. Robinson served on a ten tative basis during 1953 while ex- Coach Robert Neyland was on be at Fayetteville, Winston-Salem at Greensboro, Durham at Danville and Burlington Graham at High Point - Thomasvifle. . On July 5 and Labor Day; Greens boro will play Bur-Gra, Fayetteville will meet Durham, Reidsville will meet Danville and Fayetteville win play the Hi-Toms. Selections of playing sites for the holiday afternoon and night games brought the only long discussion of the meeting. All of. the teams except Greensboro and Bur-Gra de cided early in the session where the gams would be played. When it appeared the two teams would not be able to reach an agreement on the choice of playing sites, the league directors voted to. let both teams split the receipts from all holiday games. The two teams then agreed tha: the afternoon game on July 5 would be played at Bur-Gra and the night game at Greensboro, The othCr teams will also alternate the day and night games on the holidays. Mann advised each team to work out its own policy regarding broad' casting of regular season and play off games. •V- v - ? *■%' vy. i . nn DAJLT KSCOIW. DUNN. N. 0. y-j, ft/ATJt n m mJL I I aa , g Jj Jj mimS 4 MiJr m-Mkm BY MILTON RICHMAN a hot stove: Paul Big Poison Waner >.31 go south with the Milwaukee Braves for the purpose ot teaching out fielder BUI Bruton to hit ‘like an other Richie Ashburn-,”... Yankee Coach Jim Turner pre - dicts a big comeback this year fur Vic Raschl, who slipped to IS vic tories last season. Turner setes Raschi converting to a “stuff pitch er" while spotting his fading fast ball just frequently enough to b: more effective... Satchel Paige, recently released by Baltimore, says if he pitches with any team in organised base ball this year it will be with Los Angeles of the Pacific Coast League. That’s because BUI Veeck Is associated with the club... Optometry note: Nine rookies coming up for big league trials this Spring wear eye glasses on the field... Catcher Sam Caiderone, who went to Milwaukee in the six-plac er deal, feels Leo Durocher didn’t use him often enough. “I got three hits in five tidies lip, including a double with the bases full, against Cincinnati one day.” CalderohC .-e --called, “but the next day I was back on the bench.”.. Philadephia Athletic players say shortstop Joe Demaestri, talks '-as Spruill On Sports By FRANK SPRUILL, JR. Record Sports Writer SPRUILL ON SPORTS Reuben The Dunn High GlfeChwavfcs will take a rest tonight—or at least they won’t be playing basketball. Tonight is the last open date on the Dunn schedule and it is or.e that the girls need solely to regain some of their composure before tackling leading Benhaven her. 1 Tuesday night . In their last effort the Waves fell very unglorlously to Coats by fourteen points in a contest played at Coats. This furnished the Coals girls with ample revenge for fan earlier tWo point loss to Dutm In the Armoi-y here lii December, ahd also terminated a falx game winning streak of Dunn's All of the county games scheduled for February 19 have beeto cancelled because the tournament, which ae • tually decides the championship, wiU Start on the 18th. /3d now every team hi the conference will play only 17 cohfetence games instead of 18 as originally Scheduled, ex cept Buie’s Creek and Coats. Who have open dates on the 19Bi. Os course the games could be worked in elsewhere far the .schedule if tithe could be found without con flicts. in the event that the Dunn game leave of absence. Neyland vacated the post a year ago but remained as athletic director. lexiNgtoN, %. an . Paul Bear Bryant, whose coaching helped nft Kentucky out of the football shadows into national prominence, said today his Pew job as head coach of Texas A&M to me. 1 with the Aggies will be virtually the same orie he tabl'd wheh he came here eight yfaars ago, so: the Aggies' football fortunes also have fallen on eyu days. HOLLYWOOD, #la. to Pollv Riley of Fori Worth, Tex. and Bea McWahe of Bafttindre meet Bar bara Dawfcbn of ttedmpnt, Cfaiif.. and Marjorie MfeMlUfan of Decfatur 1&., today sh the second round of 'Aromen’s interhatfamal Four feari tliegb, cl^, as many favorites-’ feti by the Way side. .... Delaware, Ohio to the an estimated $78,000 ' for an all time high, the j«g Secretary H. C, Thomson said today, the annual Huririg the Delaware County lair grand circuit harness hafcfog pre pays the fro,ooo fftafk should 1« I • I Mover* I "SS££" impressed jeveral critics... If nothing else, Milwaukee will boast the tallest team in the ma jor* this year. The Braves Uverage i-stet, lb-inches. Only men under 1 6 feet on the club are roomies Johnhy Logan and Sibby Sisti each 8-11. Senator players like to kid fir it basemafi Mickey Vernon by telling him he Is set in Washington until at least 1958 because President El senhower has named him his fa vorite player,.. And speaking of favorites, Mick ey McDermott, the Senator south-. paW who also croons lh night Spot, during the off-season, is the favor- i ite of singer Bddie Fisher. ‘‘Even though he steals a lot of my songS," Eddie Ifaughs... The' BravCs are confident that ! 18-year-old Joey Jay, 228-pound ; fastballer from Rockfall, Conn., , will take up the slack left by , Johnny AntonelU’s departure... It happened in the minors last summer. A batter who was hit bv a pitch lay silent and motionless 1 for five minutes. When he was finally revived, his first words .were: “Who’s got my wallet?” .. i with Anderson Creek isn't made 1 up— and it probably won't be t the Dunn girls will be at a dis advantage in 'their attempt to se i cure the second seeded spot in the ! tournament. (They still have a i mathematical chance of first, but 3 mathematical is all). Since Coats ; will have played one more game than the Waves the girls front : Coats are likely to find themselves * a hfalf game ahead of the Dunnltes. I and then only If the Greenwaves s triumph over Benhaven and Boone i Trail who have already beateh i Dunn this year. 1 t Coats has games left with Ander son Creek. Lulling ton, and Erwin l at Coats and with LaFayette at La -1 Fayette. Erwin beat Coats in a game . at Erwin earlier this spar, but the same thing Will prob&bly happen r to the Skins that happened to th? i Waves. 1 . Benhaven would have to lose at least two. games to fall Into second . place with only three left on the ; schedule—Anderson Creek, Lilling . ton, And Dunn. And then Coats would have to win four to get in first by a half game or Dunn would , have to win three to gain a tie. As things stand now in the boys’ race LilHngton has the first posi -1 tion sewed up. if they lose the rest l of their games—and they certainly should win at least one—they would -,be no worse off than tied witi IjDuhn for first—lf the Greenwaves l Win the rest of theirs. 1, The way those two teams hare , been going against county competi t .tjon both should win the rfest of l their games—until they meet In the *" tournament. ; What happens then will be any , body’s guess, tillington won the . fifst game by 12 poihts in early se* - . sen and in thfe second meeting ol the two the OreehWfaves had an eight point lead lh the last quar ter Only to throw the gamfe In the final minute taking unnecessary Shots They finally lost by rive, 'Bl-56. BESULtS [ Girls Meadow 78, Bensbn 51, I Westbrook 34, Plainvlew 28. [ Games In Hafnett County Con [ ference tonight. [ Erwin at ÜBlngton, Anderson Creek at Coats, Benhaven at Buie’s ji Creek, Angler at Boone Trail, Dunn f open. Lafayette Open. |i , g— '■ i ilmi mi imi |i [1 Gel Peak J | Anti-Freeze jl Today I • Jmt Received I ' A Car Lood | I Don't Bo A Lost I JU|. . - |l __ „J] \Theres No Lobol i i On Eisenhower Yet conservative” description of his administration recently pointed up the fact that actually, the Eisen- j hower administration has no pop- ; ulariaed label or tag except that 1 of the President’s name. The public-and the administra tion-has hit on no specific label such as the New Deal as the pre vious Democratic administrations wye tabbed. When and if a short-easy-to remerber tagllne Is developed, it probably will come from one of Mr. Elsenhower’s speeches. During the 1952 campaign, he referred to OOP plans for the nation as "a crusade.” But this label is not used frequently today in a descrip tive sense. Many people forget that the late President Franklin Roosevelt tried to abandon the New Deal label in 1944. A visiting editor remained after one of Mr. Roosevelt’s press conferences for a chat and F. D. R. told him he was tried of New Deal and thought it was an outmoded ' pharse. , After the story of Mr. RooseveU’s j attitude came out, Washington i-e-' | Farm Leader Can Still Milk A Cow BY HARMAN W. NICHOLS UP Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON to I am happy to report that the leader of tWo and a half million farm women still knows how to milk a cow. i And if there is any challenge from out there in the cow countty. Mrs. Charles De Shazo swears she will prove it on TV. The lady from Paul’s Cross Rouds, Eskex County, Va., heads the lady farmers of the American l?arm Bureau Federation. 1 As such, she tells gals around the country how to get more milk out of the milk-part ot a Cow, how to gather eggs in an apron without busting thetn, and how to play hands across the sea. ‘"The last part is what I would like to talk about," she told me. “We would like to exchange ideas with women of foreign countries about how to produce more to feed more people. We could tell them how to get more vegetable gardens growing. How to pep up their soil. And how to make their dairy herds produce more. And maybe the girl farmers of other countries could help us, too.” WENT THROUGH WORKS Mrs. De Shazo said she went through the "works” when she teamed to milk a cow. \,‘‘l have been kicked off a milk stool. Once I grabbed the wrong faucet at the wrong time. I learned: what I learned the hard way.” TAX USTM FH UMCTT MNTY I IUIII ftAIITMfIIC TUAAiI/lfl CCftiUliV mu infflimuc inKvuixi rtoRUAKi I LIST MW Ml AW* fHAITT 1 I OMO PH OHT, WHICH MU IE I I AHEB AFTH THAI »ATt 1 I TAY 1 B I'IIA tJlil kll plwVn m S 5 Bi tetelM' Ma BE MB El Wfa BIWMPMM ' .• R .“Prvu I Vi 11 ■ » FRIDAY AFTERNOON FEBRUARY 14W riMVAZ As iMWIUW, porters questioned the PrMident at length at his next conferancC. He said he thought it Was time fdi’ “Old Doctor New Deal” to bow out and make way for “Young Doctor Win-the-War.’’ Further, F. D. R. wanted his party to be i known by that name—“ Win-th e War.” I He was never able to sell the idea, however, and people wfarit right ahead saying New Deal. It probably wUI be the same way with the current administration-people will go on calling if the Elsenhower administration until some catchy label shows up. From casual observation it might appear that an interprete*- is suffering hunger pains at a White House state dinner. If the honor guest seated at the Presi dent’s right speaks no English, then the interpreter mut stand through out the meal behind their chairs to translate their table conversation. Meantime, the President ahd his gUest-hiS most recent ’one wa3 the president of Turkey-go about consuming their luxurious grocer ies, chatting as though they under stood each other. I Th ienterpreter really doesn’t I suffer as the circumstances might indicate. He eats before he Comes | to dinner. Alter growing up on a farm, she went “long hair.” She went,to co’- leges to William and Mary. There K*A. Af 1 / M ia i wf mo rev me^ of tfyp times. kicked upja heel the bam dancqs SPOT'S. TELLINS OIRTT jfdKts na«iN/* |,*.M.a.-(p.«« I04l« j Mr. Farmer, plowing and plahting time is rolling aroohd again! 'An year Uhpletnents and tractor going to be ready to go? .Better call on the experts at the JOHNSON COT TON COMPANY now and pnt ybur wort on oar schedule. 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